Primary Care Week 2012

During Primary Care Week 2012 (October 22-26), FMIG teamed up with multiple other student interest groups to hold events that highlighted the role of primary care in medicine.  Events included:

-Stroke prevention and rehabilitation lecture by Dr. Burris, in collaboration with Geriatrics Interest Group
-Med-Peds physician panel
-FMIG Splinting and Casting Workshop, instructed by Dr. Jack Wells -- Dr .Wells demonstrated splinting/casting techniques, and then students practiced patching each other up:)

-FMIG Dinner Forum: "Mythbusters- Family Medicine" -- Our panel of family physicians spoke about some of the myths surrounding family medicine, and led round table discussions with students over dinner at Reynold's Alumni Center.  

                                      



Thanks to everyone for all your hard work putting together these Primary Care Week events, and we're looking forward to doing it again next year!!

FMIG T-shirts For Sale!!

$10/shirt

S, M, L, XL, & XXL sizes available

Contact Sarah Williams at sw5f2@health.missouri.edu to buy yours today!

Ronald McDonald House Dinners

Mizzou FMIG provides and prepares dinner several times a year for the children and families staying at Ronald McDonald House in Columbia, MO.  We served spaghetti at the last dinner on December 14, 2012 which was a big hit! 

 
                                       

The next RMH dinner is coming up soon on January 24, 2014.  Contact Bridget Gruender at bnt9af@health.missouri.edu if you would like to help with future RMH dinners!

Welcome to FMIG 2012-2013!!

Hello all!  Welcome to the new M1's and welcome back to the M2-M4's.  We have a lot of great events planned for this year, so tune into our blog for the dates/times of upcoming workshops, meetings, and volunteer opportunities! 

We had a great turnout at the first FMIG meeting of the year on August 8th.  Dr. Ringdahl spoke about the pros and cons of practicing family medicine, and we oriented new members to the service and leadership opportunities available to FMIG members. 

Upcoming events: 
FMIG BBQ- Thursday, Sept 6 @ 6:30 pm
FMIG Leadership Meeting- Friday, Sept 7 @ noon, MA306-O

If you have information or pics you would like included in the blog, please email Andrea Schuster at ams8t7@mail.missouri.edu.  Thanks:)

Applying to Residency Forum

Upcoming event!

April 13th

6:00 pm

Acuff Auditorium

FREE PIZZA!

We will have a forum of M4's recently matched in family medicine who will be available to answer questions regarding researching, applying to, and interviewing with family medicine residencies.  See you there!

Ronald McDonald House Dinners

Members of the Family Medicine Interest Group have been volunteering to prepare and serve dinners for the Ronald McDonald House.  We served meatloaf in November and did a taco bar in February.  The next scheduled dinner is April 22nd and we will be doing spaghetti with meatballs.  Contact mizzoufmig@gmail.com if you want to participate!

St. Baldrick's

Five FMIG members raised money for St. Baldrick's this past Saturday, collecting pledges to shave their heads for pediatric cancer research.  FMIG sponsored each member with $50 each.  M4s Trevin Mayabb, Lincoln Sheets, and Lane Wilson teamed up with M3 Tim Perkins on the team Psychogenic Alopecia.  M2 Alex Zweig also participated on the team Shaved by the Bell.  Psychogenic Alopecia raised more than $500, Shaved by the Bell more than $7,000!  More than $27,000 in total was raised for the event!

Psychogenic Alopecia takes the stage.

M3 Tim Perkins

M4 Trevin Mayabb

M4 Lane Wilson

Psychogenic Alopecia after the shave.

Awesome.